Mine it's been pretty good! I've been without my computer for a couple of weeks and I had to spend my time doing other things than blogging, so I've been playing around with my make up, I've tryed some more products that I want to review and products that has been working for me these summery days.

The beauty products I've been taking with me in my beach bag have been the following:

1- Compact Tangle Teezer. Mine is the black one. It's the best to detangle your hair. Wet or dry!! Best thing ever!! Since it's compact it has a cover for the bristles and they won't break. Makes it perfect to carry in any bag or purse...

2- EOS lip balm with SPF 15. I love the lemon one. Since you're in the sun, SPF is required. I like this one because it has SPF and an amazing lemony smell. It's easy to apply and your lips will be moisturized and pretty.

3- Hawaiian Tropic Silk Hydration SPF 15 Sunscreen. Do I need to explain why I carry this with me? It only has SPF 15 but I reaply it every 20 or 30 minutes.

5- Elilzabeth Arden 8 Hour Cream Skin Protectant Fragance Free: This balm works amazing on my skin when it feels dry. Works for lips, cuticles, foot blisters, it tames your eyebrows, sunburn, wind... It's another product that it's not only for the pool days or beach days. I've been using it everyday since I bought it.

6- The Body Shop Vitamin E Face Mist: Perfect to refresh your face and body when you just don't want to jump into the pool one more time. I know it's for the face, but sometimes I've used it in my arms, chest and neck area too. It smels like roses and the skin feels nice, soft and fresh.

My other beauty basics for pool or beach days include a nice pair of sun glasses, a good towel, hair clips, hair elastics, a good book, my ipod with my favourite music and if I want to have some colour on my face I use some Benefit Posie Tint on my lips and cheeks and some Maybelline Tatoo eyeshadows on my eyes.

What do you have in your beauty beach or pool bag? Would you recommend something else?

I was not feeling well, my temperature was fluctuating from 34ºC to 38ºC (93F to 100F). I tried to stay at home, rest, getting better and go out only when highly required.

And it was when I had to leave home that I needed to look presentable and better than I was. I had to cheat that I was feeling good when I was not!! So I had to play with some makeup to achieve that.

My must have products to look better when I am (I was) sick:

1- A light texture BB cream. I've been using my L'Oreal Nude Magique BB Cream. It's lightweight and it evens out my complexion. It moisturizes your skin and has some SPF in it.

2- Concealer: My go to concealer these days has been the Bourjois Healthy Mix Concealer for under circles, skin imperfections and to slightly highlight my cheekbones. Also used on my eyelids to even out that area.

3- Blush and Bronzer: This is a must for me if I don't want to look washed out. I find that some color on my faces really makes me look healthier.

The bronzer I've been using is my Too Faced Milk Chocolate Soleil Bronzer. This bronzer is a tad bit light for me right now, but it has been my go to bronzer during the winter months. I cannot use it right now because I've gained some color (even though I've been indoors and wearing SPF when outside) but those days when I was sick, this shade was enough for me.

4- Mascara: This step really made me look more awake! Somedays I used an eyelash curler + mascara and other days I just put some mascara on and nothing else. Since before that I applied some concealer to my eyelids, those looked slightly healthy. The mascara was just to define my eyes some more.

5- Lip balm. A must if your lips feel swallen. I have two options here:

Option 1- When I don't feel good I really don't want to wear any makeup at all, but if I need to look presentable, I have to. So, for those days when i really don't want much on my face, I just use any chapstick I happend to have handy. Any Nivea or Liposan lipbalm will do. I've applied also Rose Hip balm (the one that I have is also bood for your nostrils when they feel raw) from Repavar.

Option 2- I find that some color on my lips really helps making me look healty. The colors that look nice on my lips must not be nude, other wise I look even sicker. I've been using my Maybelline Baby Lips in Cherry Me! to give me some nice color, Clinique Chubby Stick Intense in Heftiest Hibiscus and my Bourjois Lipstick Color Boost in 01 Red Sunrise. All those shades make me look better, and on days when my eyes looked specially small and didn't want to draw any atencion to them, those shades were my best option.

A few months ago I went to Sephora to get me some makeup and beauty products. One of my concerns are fine lines appearing close to my eyes and in my forhead. To deal with those fine lines or fine wrinkles, I was interested in finding something to fight them.

This product is a lotion (lighter than a cream) and it's full of antioxidants. It nourishes the skin, feels very lightweight and it's designed to fight the early signs of aging (offensively and defensivly). Since my skin is just starting showing those fine lines, this was a good option for me, or so I thought.

You can use it AM and/or PM. I used it every single night since I got it. I didn't use it during the day because it does not have any SPF in it and then I had to add an extra step to my routine. I only used it in the areas where I did know fine lines were appearing, this way, the product would last me longer.

What I like about this product:

I like its texture.

It's oil free (very important for my oily skin).

It's fragance free.

You get a good amount of product, 50ml, for what you pay.

What I don't like about this product:

The price, it costed about 30€.

It did nothing for my skin after 5 months and a half of using it. It didn't fight any existing fine line and it didn't prevent new ones.

It does not have any SPF in it (I think it's very important for any product that you want to use during the day)

I don't think I'm going to buy this product in the future and I don't even know if I will recommend it to anyone I know. I did had high hopes for this product since Strivectin's a good line of products and it's well known for their anti-wrinkle products. If I ever buy something else from this brand it will be the regular product.

One of the best ones, for me, is this Bourjois Express Eye Makeup Remover. It's a two-phase product that convines an oily product (blue liquid) with a non-oily one (clear liquid). It's good to remove waterproof eye makeup, and it really does it well. Keep in mind that Bourjois is a brand from Chanel and some of their products are mostly the same.

This is my third bottle of this product and will repurchase it for sure, as I've been doing in the last couple of years, since I first discovered it. This bottle is 200ml. and costs 3,99€.

What it does:

The blue oily product is the one in charge of removing all the eye makeup you have on. And it does it soooo nicely and easily that this has been the main reason why I've stick to this product for so long.

The clear liquid is the one that will clean the oil residue at the same time you're removing your eye makeup and won't leave that oily cast that other products have.

My experience with this product has been good. Otherwise I would not have repurchasing it over and over. It does a very good job, but you have to keep a few things in mind before using it. According to me (this is just my opinion) what has to be done to use this product is:

First, shake it very very very thoroughly, because it has to convine the two products.

Second, you need to keep a cotton pad in hand to work fast and apply the product because otherwise the two products will start to separate. And third, you apply it to your eye and leave it there for 20 seconds or more without rubbing or doing anything. After those seconds, you swipe it very gently downwards and most of the product, if not all, will be gone.

The days that I was in a hurry and did something different, it did not remove the eye makeup completly, though it did quite a good job.